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Aug 21, 2023
The Piri Reis Map of 1513
Portion of the 1513 Piri Reis Map
The spectacular 1513 Piri Reis world map, next in our series of ancient maps, date...
Jun 30, 2023
The Dunhuang Star Chart
North Circumpolar Region from the Dunhuang Star Chart
This blog in our ancient map series deviates a bit from the re...
Jun 24, 2023
The Madaba Mosaic Map
Madaba Mosaic Map Fragment
The next map in our series of ancient maps is a remarkable map made with mosaic tessera...
Jun 18, 2023
The Catalan Atlas
Cosmographic Chart from the Catalan Atlas
Our next early map was created c. 1375 by Abraham Cresques, a member of...
Jun 11, 2023
Ptolemy’s World Map
The next maps in our series of ancient maps were based on the work of Claudius Ptolemy, who is often called the fathe...
Jun 2, 2023
World Map of Al-Sharif Al-Idrisi
Map of the World by Al-Sharif Al-Idrisi
Another fascinating map of the medieval era was produced by the brilliant Mu...
May 29, 2023
Hereford Mappa Mundi
The next map in our series of Ancient Maps was created much closer to the time when maps began to be more common...
May 18, 2023
An Ancient Roman Map
The next ancient map in our series is the Tabula Peutingeriana, a fascinating ancient Roman itinerarium, or road...
May 12, 2023
Ancient Babylonian Maps
Babylonian is a term often used to describe the ancient cultural region of the Fertile Crescent called Mesopotamia, w...
May 7, 2023
Ancient Maps
We hope you have been enjoying our blog entries describing the lives of a few of the best known cartographers of the ...
Jan 28, 2023
Map Maker Biography: Martin Waldseemüller (c. 1470 – 1520)
Universalis Cosmographia 1507
Martin Waldseemüller was a brilliant German humanist, academic, cartographer and co...
Dec 24, 2022
Mapmaker Biography: Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718)
Franciscan friar Vincenzo Coronelli - cartographer, geographer, printer, inventor, author of books and treatises, wa...